Friday, November 08, 2013

Mike Luckovich on financial deregulation

I happened to be reminded of this excellent cartoon from 2010, and I couldn't resist sharing it again. It captures only one small fragment of a larger story, however. The real problem is not that these guys made out like bandits and (on
the whole) got away scot-free, but that they helped to bring about a
major economic crash from which we're still recovering, and from which
many people are still suffering. Are they repentant? Hardly. For more on that larger story, see here & here & here & here.

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About Me

Jeff Weintraub is a social & political theorist, political sociologist, and democratic socialist who has been teaching most recently at the University of Pennsylvania, Bryn Mawr College, and the New School for Social Research.. He was a Visiting Scholar at the Center for European Studies at Harvard University in 2015-2016 and is currently a Research Associate at the Graduate School of Social Work and Social Research, Bryn Mawr College.
(Also an Affiliated Professor with the University of Haifa in Israel & an opponent of academic blacklists.)